Tailor&#39;s attitude-measure.



No. 744,826. PATENTBD NOV. 24, 1903.

' E. WAKEFIELD. TAILOR'S ATTITUDE MEASURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24, 1903.

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TAILORS ATTITUDE-MEASURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,826, dated November 24, 190 3.

Application filed March 24, 1903.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST WAKEFIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Pleasant, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Tailors Attitude-Measures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide a device applicable to a person by means of which a tailor may obtain accurate measurements conformable to the persons natural or normal attitude or carriage, so that the garment so measured and cut will fit the person when occupying such natural or normal attitude or carriage.

The invention consists of a graduated standard provided with a belt by means of which it may be fixed to a person at the side and in a vertical position and provided with a movable measuring-tape by whichmeasurements may be obtained at and below the Waist, and an arm projecting at right angles from the standard and adapted to be placed beneath the persons arm and having a measuringtape in line therewith and by which blade measurements may be taken, and another measuring-tape by which measurements .of the upper body may be obtained, the parts being capable of being folded, ifdesired.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 is a rear view, of the device applied to a male image. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device detached, the belt and tapes being broken away.

The standard 1, of wood, metal, or other material, is graduated, preferably in fractions of inches, in accordance with tailors measurements to obtain measurements from the armpit to the waist-line. For convenience in packing this standard may be jointed in any suitable way at 2, as by a tongue-andsocket joint fixed by a thumb-screw 3. A belt 4: is secured to this standard by a loop, as indicated by dotted lines, Fig. 3, or otherwise, and it is of a length sufficient to be passed about the waist of a person, and it is adapted to have its free end secured to a hook or projection 5 on the edge of the standard, so that the standard may be secured to Serial No. 149,818- (No model.)

a persons side in a vertical position, as indi* cated in Figs. 1 and 2. On one edge the standard is provided with a loop 6, to which is movably applied one end of a measuringtape 7, so as to be capable of adjustment up and down from the waist-line to and below the thighs or pelvic region, as indicated by full and dotted lines, Figs. 1 and 2. An arm 8 is fixed atright angles to the standard 1 and projects rearwardly therefrom, so as to fit in the armpit when the standard is adjusted to the person and so as to insure the perpendicularity of the standard. A measuring-tape 9 is fixed in any suitable way to the standard or to it and the arm 8, so as to be capable of being passed from the standard beneath the arm to the center of the b ack in order to obtain measurements known as blade measurements, and another measuring-tape 10 is fixed to the standard, so as to be passed upwardly around the upper arm, shoulders, and neck to obtain measurements at those points. The measuring-tape 9 may be passed through a loop or a slot or slots in the arm 8 or in a piece attached to the arm 8 or standard in order to keep it in alinement and to separate it from the tape 10, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3.

In order to locate the center of the back of a person to be measured and to get the dis tance from the nape of the neck to the point where tape 9 meets the vertical dotted line, Fig. 2, at the center of the back, I take a measuring-tape, slip it under belt 4. at the back, draw it up to the point Where the top of the garment is to be at the nape of the neck, keeping its right-hand side so far as possible exactly in the center of the back, and fasten it, as by a pin, to the vest or other garment. Thus I can ascertain the center of the back and the distance from nape of neck to center of back at opposite armpits.

The standard audits arm 8 when belted to the waist at a persons side insure a fixed point for measurements conformable to the normal natural attitude, posture, or carriage of the person, and thereby the tailor is enabled to measure accurately the persons projections in front and in rear of the standard, so as to cut and fit the garment in conformity to the natural person rather than in accordance with an assumed or unnatural figure, and thus garments may be produced with a correct set in the first instance.

I have thus shown and described one embodiment of the principle and operation of my invention, but wish not to be understood as limiting my invention to the mere details of construction, since they may be variously modified in accordance with its principle and operation.

What I claim is 1. A tailoris measure, having a standard adapted to be applied vertically to the side of a person, at the waist, provided with an arm to project beneath the persons arm, a measuring-tape slidable longitudinally of and upon the standard for use in obtaining measurements about the lower body, and fixed measuring-tapes applied at or near the arm for obtaining measurements about the upper body. I

2. A tailors attitude-measure, having a standard provided with a belt for securing it vertically to the side of a person, an armpitengaging arm projecting therefrom, a measuring-tape appiied to the standard at the waistline and movable upon the standard above and below such line, and measuring-tapes applied to the upper portion of the standard, the standard affording a fixed point of measurement from which accurate measurements of front and rear projections of the person may be obtained.

3. A tailors measure, havinga standard, a belt applied thereto whereby it may be fastened about the waist vertically at the side of a person, a longitudinal loop applied to one edge of the standard, and a measuringtape adjustably applied to said loop and movable above and below the belt, whereby accurate measurements of the circumference and front and rear projections of the person may be obtained from about the waist-line to and below the hips.

4. A tailors measure, having a standard, a belt applied thereto whereby it may be fastened about the waist vertically at the side of a person, a longitudinal loop applied to one edge of the standard, a measuring-tape adjnstably applied to said loop and movable above and below the belt, whereby accurate measurements of the circumference and front and rear projections of the person may be obtained from about the Waist-line to and below the hips, a projecting arm for engaging the armpit, and measuring-tapes affixed at ornear said arm for similarly obtaining measurements above the waist.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of March, A. D. 1903.

ERNEST WAKEFIELD.

Witnesses:

JOHN FREEMAN, W. A. KALP. 

